Re: 4 gigs of ram shows only 3 in meminfo

From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:34:43 -0600

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On 02/29/08 14:24, Ed Curtis wrote:

Just installed a new server that has 4 gigs of ram. Running cat
/proc/meminfo shows only 3 gigs of memory. I though maybe there was a
bad stick. Checking the bios screen at boot does show 4 gigs. Any ideas
why etch isn't seeing all 4 gigs?

Sure. You're not using a "highmem" kernel.

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